Check out my Christmas tree at work. It's powered by USB. 

It was time. :) After Thanksgiving means time to take out Christmas decorations. I got all festive up in here. 

Peyton gets to open a Christmas book each night to read before Christmas. Now I just need a tree. 

We finally finished the dining room ceiling. It's such a relief to have the room all clean and functional again. Here's some pictures from the project. We wanted to do a wood ceiling but there was a section missing after removing drywall. Good thing about this project was we were able to fix the insulation and make crawl space useable.  

Before removing old insulation 

So turns out mudding a ceiling is different from a wall. We learned a lot and don't want to do this again. Lol

Peter did a good job painting. I did the edge work and cleaned the beams. 

Finally done! 

Before and after. So nice to have room back to normal.  

We are making progress on the ceiling in the dining room.